Juneteenth was commemorated across the country on Thursday, including in Boston at Roxbury Heritage State Park.

Today is Juneteenth. Here's a look at the celebrations, free museum days and what's open and closed in the Boston area.

While the tone was celebratory, many of those present said this year’s Juneteenth felt especially urgent — not just as a remembrance of emancipation but as a stand against efforts to suppress ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.

Summoning the "type of rebellion and the type of joy required" in a Trump age, Juneteenth honorees kick off Boston festival celebrating Black voices.

BOSTON — Boston residents gathered near Roxbury Heritage State Park in a commemoration of the Juneteenth holiday on Thursday. Juneteenth, a fairly new federal holiday, remembers June 19, 1865 ...

Boston weather is set to heat up in the coming week, with “strong to severe” thunderstorms likely to hit around Thursday, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

Mail deliveries may be impacted on Juneteenth, the holiday in which Americans celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.

Other ways to celebrate: Four Boston museums are offering free admission today in honor of Juneteenth: The Museum of Fine Arts, the Institute for Contemporary Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner ...

Across the nation, many people spent the day celebrating Juneteenth, which commemorates the official end of slavery in the U.S.

Boston police have identified the man who was shot and killed in a car on Juneteenth as 21-year-old Hyde Park resident Teo Vernice.

Politics Juneteenth goes uncelebrated at White House as Trump complains about ‘too many’ holidays President Donald Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end ...